Meg Tilly Quotes

I begin early in the morning and edit everything I wrote the previous day. I write until mid-afternoon. My goal is to write a chapter per week, and if I am not finished by Friday, I write on the weekend. I get a lot of fan emails and answer them every day. In the late afternoon, I attend to the business of publishing, etc.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.

The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

I don't know if I could date a single dad. It would depend on the guy.

I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

Siddhant has received a perfect upbringing from his mother and it's up to me now to continue on the same track. But I must say that it's definitely not possible for a father to play the role of a dad and mom simultaneously.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.

I think when you're on a visiting relationship rather than a living relationship, it's kind of hard to have impact as a parent.

I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.

My dad left when I was young. I didn't have a dad. I'm part of that divorced generation and didn't want to do that to my kids, so I took a year off and became a full-time dad, changed diapers and all that while my wife worked.

I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.

I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'

It's impossible for a couple to bring up two children without having lots and lots of arguments.

I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.

I take care of my kids every day. I drop them off at school and pick them up whenever my wife is too tired.

My daughter does not travel with me. She has a much more stress-free life at home with her daddy.

I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.

Every child needs both parents.

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

It takes a village to raise a child; that's how I basically balance it. It's twenty four hours in a day.

I encourage women who are starting families to think about the five-year horizon. The first few years of parenthood are really hard, but if you stick it out, it gets easier.